Malawi Orphan and Community Project
"Quest4Change works with Joshua Orphan Care Trust to help HIV/AIDS Orphans, vulnerable children and their families in rural Malawi. We support children through school and work on grassroots development initiatives"
Working with Joshua Orphan Care Trust
Quest4Change helps provide a safe and secure living environment for orphans, vulnerable
children and their families in the Pensulo district of Malawi.
What's the problem? Each community we work in suffers from the debilitating effects of significant poverty coupled with rising HIV/AIDS rates, poor road networks, lack of clean, piped water and electricity, and very few health and education facilities.
How Quest4Change helps: By providing volunteer support to self-help community groups, predominantly constructing schools, small businesses and medical centre's. Volunteer donations are used on sustainable development projects through the construction of feeding stations and school buildings, developing tree-planting initiatives, school scholarship funds and related projects to improve the livelihoods of the rural communities
Latest News:
Paul Deaville and Steve Robinson are two of the members of this year's Quest4Change Brighton Marathon team and they have both decided to raise money to sponsor children in Malawi through school, we think this is fantastic, just click on their names to find out more.
Congratulations two the two 2009 Quest4Change teams who built a double classroom in Chitakale village and a clinic staff house in the village of Pensulo. They lived and worked alongside local people to make a real difference to their lives (construction and finished pictures above).
Over the next two years the main aim will be to construct a two-room classroom in Kachumbe, complete both a clinic in Pen Sulo and a feeding station in Sigerege. A larger school building is also planned for this village in 2009. Each Quest volunteer's donation will continue to fund a child through 5 years of secondary education. A key focus of this project is also to help our project partners to develop community awareness on environmental education, deforestation and HIV.
Achievements (Updated December 2009)
- Built a Maternity Clinic in the Pensulo community.
- Built a clinic house for Dr's and Nurses.
- Constructed an Orphan Care feeding centre.
- Constructed two (2 classroom) schools.
- Plastered, painted and constructed the floor, doors and windows of classroom.
- Gutted an existing pre primary school, and then re-plastered, painted and decorated it inside and out, as well as replacing the roof.
- Renovated two small community owned businesses (sewing centre and bakery) and funded business and accountancy training for co-operative owners.
- Spent over 1,500 hours assisting at Marys Meals feeding centres
- Sponsored 61 children through 5 years of secondary education.
- Completed construction of pit latrine.
- Co-ordinated HIV Awareness Day for local community, national TV, radio and government officials.
- Organised several tree planting days with members of the local community.
- Renovated a community educational resource centre which included designing and painted several murals, as well as furnishing the centre with tables, chairs and shelving.
- Constructed outdoor 'play centre' for Pensulo community orphans.
How you can help: The Perfect Present
£75 will send a child to secondary school in Malawi.
Why Education?
- Your gift will support an Aids orphan in rural Malawi.
- This gift pays for school fees, books and uniform for a child.
- 115 million children of primary age do not attend school - that is a tragedy for each individual child - you can help change this one child at a time.
- This not only benefits the child but also the whole community
- You support will also provide them with books which will assist their learning, making it easier for them to study at school and home.
You will receive a personalised gift card thanking you for your support and regular e-mails throughout the year letting you know what is being achieved with your help. If it's a gift this can be personalised and sent directly to the recipient.
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Project Partner:
Quest4Change works with Joshua Orphan Care on this project, supporting the United Nations Millennium Development Goal 2 - Achieving universal Primary Education by 2015 and Goal 4 - Reducing child mortality.
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